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1961 · Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Cairo Tower image

Seed wave 49 image for Cairo Tower.

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Cairo Tower

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt · City-level coordinates only

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Seed wave 49 image for Cairo Tower.

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Field	Cairo Tower 1961 · Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt	Taller de Arquitectura X 1981 · Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1961	1981
Place	Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt	Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Place context	Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt	Representative site: Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Climate	17°C · 13.1h daylight · 5 km/h wind	18°C · 12.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Kurimanzutto
Focus	Observation tower	2 works in corpus
Architects	Naoum Shebib	Alberto Kalach
Linked context	Bureaus Naoum Shebib	Notable works Kurimanzutto Biblioteca Vasconcelos
Typologies	tower landmark observation tower	gallery house library cultural building public building
Materials	concrete	steel glass concrete
Carbon signals	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete	Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Steel Glass
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	2 of 2 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.